English-Language Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 2231:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  His poetry is said to be inscrutable.

  Options:
  A) ludicrous
  B) unlearnable
  C) inseparable
  D) mysterious
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2232: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  ''I want to know you intimately''
  What was the recipient's response?

  Options:
  A) approval and acceptance
  B) dismissal and confrontation
  C) rejection, dismissal and contempt
  D) sympathy and approval
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2233:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  If joy hadn't been tripped up halfway through the race, she would have come first.

  Options:
  A) discouraged
  B) disqualified
  C) interrupted
  D) exhausted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2234:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s):

  Although i am watching television. I _____ what you are saying.

  Options:
  A) am hearing
  B) can hear
  C) have heard
  D) was hearing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2235:

  All too often, there is deference between what we say and what we think we have said, and between how we feel we have handled people and how they think they have been treated. When such ‘gaps’ occur between the intent and the action, it is often stated that there has been ‘a break- down in communication ’. Sometimes the break – down is allowed to become so serious that the gap becomes a chasm, relatives in family ceasing to speak to one another, managements and trade unions refusing to meet, government recalling ambassadors when relations between states reach a low ebb.

  In fact, sometimes when people communicate, either as individual or within groups, problems inevitably occur; instruction maybe impossible to carry out, offence is taken at a particular remark, a directive is ambiguously phrased or people’s attitudes are colored by jealousy, resentment or frustration.

  During the past fifty years, industrial, commercial and public service organization have grown prodigiously to meet the needs of advanced technological societies. Sometimes as many as 10,000 people work on one site, or one company employs more than 50,000 people. Clearly, good communications are essential to the efficient operation of any organization, and vital to the fulfillment of al those who commit their working lives to it.

  For this reason, management specialist and behavioral scientist have devoted much thought and energy over recent years to analyzing the problems caused by bad communication practices, and creating good communication climate and systems.

  As a result of the current structure of societies and economies, most of us spend our working lives in an organization that we become good communicators with social skills.

  'Chasm' as used in the passage means Options:
  A) Serious eruption
  B) Disaster
  C) Wide difference
  D) Disagreement
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2236:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  They come here on bootless errand.

  Options:
  A) worthwhile
  B) vain
  C) delusive
  D) intended
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2237:

  Choose the option nearest n meaning to the word or phrase underlined.

  Nigeria has been playing a vital role in the political and economic development of Africa.

  Options:
  A) credictable
  B) crucial
  C) respectable
  D) laudable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2238:
  A British electronics manufacturer has built a factory in which quartz crystals can be grown in 3 weeks. The natural growth of quartz takes 3 million years, and very often the crystals are not sufficiently pure to satisfy the precise needs of science. However, the manufactured crystals are exceptionally pure, and this is important because quartz, in transistors is used in an astonishing number of devices where constant accuracy is required: radio and television transmitters and receivers, space satellites and computers are familiar examples. In order to make artificial quartz, very small pieces of the natural crystal imported from Brazil are placed in long, narrow, steel cylinders. A high pressure and a high temperature are maintained within the cylinders for 3 weeks, and at the end of this the small fragments have grown to the required weight of one pound. The quartz is then ready to be made into the tiny transistors that have replaced the much larger thermionic valves.
  Transistors have Options:
  A) helped to rodce quartz
  B) made radio and television inaccessible to the working populace
  C) made transmitters and receivers smaller and lighter
  D) retarded progress in electronics
  E) made transmitters and receivers bigger and heavier
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2239:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  Many untrustworthy students gives evasive answers to questions which they fully understand.

  Options:
  A) direct
  B) outspoken
  C) simple
  D) truthful
  E) clever
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2240:

  Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the option. The syllables are written in capital letters.

  genealogy?

  Options:
  A) geneaLOGY
  B) geneALOGY
  C) geNEalogy
  D) GEnealogy
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  The correct answer is B .